NBGN blog
Every Child matters/ Chaque enfant compte
On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, The NBGN stands in solidarity with Canada's Indigenous communities. This day is not only a time for reflection, but also a call to action. We must collectively acknowledge the painful legacy of colonialism, residential schools and systemic racism faced by Indigenous Peoples ...
Is higher education enough?
Exploring the earnings gap for Black Canadians Does earning a degree translate into financial stability for Black Canadians? At the National Black Graduate Network (NBGN), we believe that education should be an engine of social mobility, but recent data tells a troubling story. Even with advanced degrees, Canadian-born Black populations face persistent wage gaps and barriers to career advancement, revealing how systemic racism continues to impact Black lives in subtle yet harmful ways What the Data Tells Us Research ...
Congress 2025 / Congrès 2025
Black Futures Initiatives / Black Futures Research Institute in collaboration with the National Black Graduates Network (NBGN) invites academic researchers to a networking event and to engage in an in-person Chill and Chat around the theme of coming together. This is an opportunity for NGBN graduates from all universities to network, to meet Black researchers at GBC, to engage in artifact creation (artifact creation - inauguration of the BFRI space where graduates sign something and we create a plaque ...
2023-2024 Annual Report
Below please find a summary of our 2023-2024 academic year. We wish all of the members and friends of the NBGN a wonderful summer season and look forward to the start of a new academic year in September! Leadership team marcus singleton (coordinator) Aayah Amir (membership outreach) rosalind hampton (director) Membership We conclude the academic year with 259 members, a growth of 15 members from previous year. Our membership is based across at least 28 Canadian universities: University of ...
On Black Study Groups
marcus singleton For my generation, the formal classroom was never the space for deep critique precisely because it was not a place of love. The classroom was—and still is—a performative space, where faculty and students compete with each other. Through study [reading] groups, we created our own intellectual communities held together by principle and love. . .the political study group was our lifeblood—both on and off campus. — Robin D.G. Kelley Where do we go, what do we say ...
2024-2025 Annual Report
As the founding director of the NBGN I am writing this year’s annual report, marking the end of my term as director of the network. I am tremendously proud of the work we have done in creating and growing the NBGN together over the past five years and am excited that it will now be permanently based at OISE’s Centre for Black Studies in Education (CBSE). I am especially grateful to the PhD students who have worked with me ...
NBGN SUMMER BREAK
Warm summer greetings to all, and a big welcome to our many recent new members from University of Windsor! Please note that new membership requests will not be processed again until the start of the new academic year. Black graduate students and graduate students of Black Studies are still welcome to apply for membership in the next few weeks, and you will be added to the website (and receive notification) when the new NBGN leadership team begins their term ...